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Oh my ears and whiskers! I'm early!

The Night of the Rabbit, a point-and-click adventure of magic and mystery, with beautiful storybook graphics, arrived a day early and it's available for Windows and Mac OS X on GOG.com, for only $19.99.

Who goes there? Oh, you have startled me, human. We don't see many of your kind here, in the deepest depths of the forest. This isn't a place most humans would understand, their minds always busy with their work and duties. This is Mouswood, a place of magic, wonders, and danger. Or was it "adventure"? I do always get these two confused. Are you lost? I'll tell you a secret--you're only lost as long as you keep looking for a way out. Me? I never go looking for anything else than what I've already got. You never know what you may find. Or what may have find you. Take this boy who came across my clearing a while ago--was it days, or weeks, or years?--he was looking for something, but instead he was found by the Marquis. That must've ended badly for him, I gather. Or was it "well"? Words are confusing. But look at me, going on and on and on, while you probably don't want to listen to the old tree like me. Ah! I don't even suppose you can understand me, and my leafwind speach. You probably just wanted to rest a while in my shadow. Well, be on your way then. Good luck. Just remember: don't follow the white rabbit. Or "do follow" him. I do always get these two confused.

The Night of the Rabbit is an adventure game that features classic point-and-click gameplay, but matches it with extraordinary amount of fairytale qualities. The puzzles here, are an addition to the story, not the other way around. As you follow the hero, Jerry Hazelnut, and his rabbit guide, the mysterious Marquis de Hoto, deep into the mysteriously beautiful realm of Mousewood, you will many times stop to look with awe at your surroundings. The gameworld [url=http://www.gog.com/news/ask_developer_a_question_the_night_of_the_rabbit" target="_blank]envisioned by Matt Kempke[/url], is full of discrete charm and secret matters known only to the inhabitants of the forest. The story, as it starts to reveal, will put you in that special state of mind you only experience as a child, heading out to meet the adventure unknown, before the summer ends. If you're looking for a game full of wonders, that will make your inner child smile, and yet force you to reflect on things important in life, you have found it. Let the Rabbit lead you towards a late summer night's dream.

The Mousewood calls, can you hear it--the soft, charming whisper in the wind, playing with the summer's first dry leaves? Answer its call, get The Night of the Rabbit for only $19.99 on GOG.com.
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skordakias: Same here in Greece...
Steam version: 9.99 euro, Steam premium version 12.50 euro.
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JMich: EU2 version price seems bugged. Steamprices gives it as €19.99, while the steam has it at €9.99
My guess would be a pricing glitch, question is what is the correct price.
A pricing glitch, that's what I also thought at the beginning. But if it were a real glitch they would have corrected it by now.
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Schnuff: Waahhhh, i need a money loan.
If this game is anything like the others from Daedalic its another must have and played.

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mmmh, i just read some reviews about this game. They were not so positive.
The Hero is rather annoying in his faked childlike play, the plot is confuse, the dialogs are sluggish and there are only a few jokes.
But its a nice looking graphic, good soundtrack and riddles.
OK, lets see if there is a demo available
If you liked other Daedalic adventures you'll love this. I utterly hated Deponia but think Night of the Rabbit is superb.

The plot isn't confusing, in fact it's very straightforward, but it does info-dump a bit at the end. Jerry (the hero) is actually quite likeable, and certainly isn't annoying. I don't know what "the dialogs are sluggish" means, but you can skip them if you read them quickly. As for "few jokes", it's not a comedy adventure - it's more charming and sweet, but there are jokes definitely, and they're vastly more funny than anything in Deponia.
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skordakias: Same here in Greece...
Steam version: 9.99 euro, Steam premium version 12.50 euro.
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JMich: EU2 version price seems bugged. Steamprices gives it as €19.99, while the steam has it at €9.99
My guess would be a pricing glitch, question is what is the correct price.
Well, it still shows as 9,99€ and 12,50€ three days later.
How long do pricing glitches take to be corrected on Steam?
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TheTingler: snip.
I have only seen the trailer. Yes i enjoyed the Deponia Tales, so i hoped for another good game. Still experience has thought me never to trust a game.
So i wait till i can read different reviews. And sadly every review of this game is nearly the same...medicore nothing more.
A few examples:
pcgames: 68/100
Since more than 25 years i play and love adventures. But such a discrepancy between the look and gameplay hasn't shown for some times. TNOTR looks lovely and sounds great, but the inevitable trial & error passages are troublesome, because there are just so few tips. The game is for fans with a high frustration resistance.
gamestar: 71/100
Confusing story, lame dialogs. The story loses itself in mysterious hints. And its not helpful that Daedalic must tell us
the biggest part of the story in the final credits.
Jerry, a 12 year old, sounds like an 40 year old who tries to play a kid...no not only the too old speaker of him, but the silly dialogs without humor, charm or childlike naivety and thats makes him an unbearable pain in the ass.
Even as a game for children or family the game fails.....the riddles are too demanding and the plot confusing.
In the end its a soulless but nice to look at adventure.....


So you see, for $ 19,99 that doesn't sound promising. Add that this is a new game. One i can buy in every shop.
And for only € 12 more i get the drm free version with soundtrack cd, a handbook and an audiobook .
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JMich: No idea about the audio stories.
Just a short info for anyone interested; I've got the complete German edition of NOTR and from what I've seen it's very likely that the 8 audio stories contained on the bonus CD are the same 8 audio stories you can unlock in the game. So while the GOG version does not offer the audio files separately, you should be able to listen to the stories in-game, once you've unlocked them. Therefor the audio stories themselves are not a bonus exclusive to the DVD version (or Steam), only the separate audio files for listening to them outside of the game (and without unlocking them first) are.

Unless they didn't translate the stories for the international version, but since during the GOG interview the author talked about the option to unlock them in the game, I assume they did. (If you own the GOG version, check the menu; there should be an option to display all the audio stories you've collected so far, even if you didn't find any yet).
Post edited June 03, 2013 by Leroux
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JMich: No idea about the audio stories.
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Leroux: Just a short info for anyone interested; I've got the complete German edition of NOTR and from what I've seen it's very likely that the 8 audio stories contained on the bonus CD are the same 8 audio stories you can unlock in the game. So while the GOG version does not offer the audio files separately, you should be able to listen to the stories in-game, once you've unlocked them. Therefor the audio stories themselves are not a bonus exclusive to the DVD version (or Steam), only the separate audio files for listening to them outside of the game (and without unlocking them first) are.

Unless they didn't translate the stories for the international version, but since during the GOG interview the author talked about the option to unlock them in the game, I assume they did. (If you own the GOG version, check the menu; there should be an option to display all the audio stories you've collected so far, even if you didn't find any yet).
I can confirm that it is correct. I have played the game and I have unlocked all the eight stories. They are all narrated in English (but there are no subtitles for them).